jenkinsci/git-plugin — pull request #47 by rogerhu (2011-10-26 16:50:08+00:00)
Title: create an account/lookup using full email address instead of username for

I've been using a compiled version on the Jenkins plugin though...perhaps a backwards compat. (though less secure) for previous Git users way would be try to look up the username first...but anyways background/motivations for using the entire email address is for doing OpenID integrations since the OpenID plug-in depends on looking up the full email address.

Background located here:

http://hustoknow.blogspot.com/2011/10/integrating-google-apps-with.html